Marco Pfiffner

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Marco Pfiffner Alpine skiing
Marco Pfiffner signature.svg
nation LiechtensteinLiechtenstein Liechtenstein
birthday 25th March 1994 (age 26)
place of birth Walenstadt ,  Switzerland
size 191 cm
Weight 93 kg
Career
discipline Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Unterländer winter sports club
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 24, 2016
 Overall World Cup 161. ( 2019/20 )
 Combination World Cup 44th (2019/20)
last change: March 15, 2020

Marco Pfiffner (born March 25, 1994 in Walenstadt , Canton St. Gallen , Switzerland ) is a Liechtenstein ski racer . The six-time Liechtenstein champion has already taken part in several world championships and Olympic Games .

biography

Marco Pfiffner comes from Mauren and starts for the Unterländer Wintersportverein (UWV).

Youth and European Cup

At 15 he competed in his first FIS races . A year later, in January 2011, he took part in the Junior World Championships in Crans-Montana and finished 43th and 54th in slalom and giant slalom. In two other JWM participations he reached a 22nd place in the slalom of Jasná 2014 as the best result. At the end of the season he won his first of five national championship titles in slalom. In January 2013 he started in the European Cup for the first time until he could win his first points, but three years passed. His personal best remained an 18th place for the coming winters, achieved in the Zell am See slalom in January 2016.

Major events and World Cup

A few weeks after his first Junior World Championship, Pfiffner also competed at the World Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He was ranked 72nd in giant slalom and 53rd in slalom. Two years later he made slight improvements at the World Championships in Schladming . The Olympic Games in Sochi brought him his best results at major events with places 24 and 42 in his two main disciplines.

On January 24, 2016, he made his World Cup debut in the Kitzbühel slalom , but has never qualified for a second run in several other starts. At the state championships in March 2016, he was crowned Liechtenstein champion for the first time in both slalom and giant slalom. In the giant slalom, a 39th place was enough for him, more than 5.7 seconds behind race winner Christian Hirschbühl .

In his third participation in a world championship , he started in St. Moritz for the first time in four disciplines. 36th and 42nd in Super-G and Downhill, he finished 34th in the combination and achieved his best World Championship result with 26th place in the slalom. On January 12, 2018, he surprisingly won the European Cup combination in Saalbach . For his second Olympic Games in Pyeongchang he was selected as the flag bearer of the three-man Liechtenstein squad. In four races he stayed with a 25th slalom rank just above his previous top result from 2014.

In January 2020, Pfiffner achieved his first World Cup points with 29th place in the Lauberhorn combination.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 1 place in the top 30

World Cup ratings

season total combination
space Points space Points
2019/20 161. 2 44. 2

European Cup

  • 2017/18 season : 2nd combined ranking
  • 3 placements among the top 20, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
January 12, 2018 Saalbach Austria combination

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • 6-time Liechtenstein champion (slalom 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, giant slalom 2016)
  • Victory at the Swiss Slalom Championships in 2016
  • 4 victories in FIS races

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LSV management. UWV, accessed February 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Peter Gerber: Marco Pfiffner also wins the slalom title. Skionline.ch, March 26, 2016, archived from the original on February 5, 2018 ; accessed on February 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Marco Pfiffner is the standard bearer. Liechtenstein Fatherland , February 8, 2018, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfiffner, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Walenstadt